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To keep going your best bet is an awesome hitter with a huge sweet spot/hot bat.
As an aside, the boys have a much different journey in terms of how bats impact their path to high level swing, IMO. At some point, the fields get huge, the bats go dead (Bbbcor or wood), the pitching gets wicked (not to say fastpitch pitching isn't a challenge) and you either sink or swim. I think that reality is what leads boy hitters to finding a high-level swing -- they search for it and find it or they simply fall out of the game. In fastpitch a wider variety of swings, including less-than-perfect, can still be very effective though there's a sink-swim element in fastpitch too -- probably high-level club or D1...
And this is one of the things I've mentioned many times over. A crappy swing can still be plenty effective in fast pitch. For one, just making contact and having blazing speed is one recipe for success. Two, girls never have to stop using bats that have more trampoline effect than your diving board at your friend's pool. My DD is still playing baseball, currently preparing for a 15u wood bat tournament on the national scene. In baseball, you simply have to have power in your swing and contact. Keeping that strength is what's making her so successful in fast pitch. Boys don't get the luxury girls get, IMO.